Plastics, Polymers and Rubber Manufacturing

Popular with manufacturers and consumers across South-East Asia, single-use sachets are a nightmare for recyclers and the environment. 

Small and big retailers alike are looking to adopt new recyclable packaging for mandarins, saying it would avoid the use of 11,700 kilograms of plastic in one year.

REDcycle collapsed under its own weight, stockpiling recyclable material with nowhere to go. The new soft plastic recycling scheme will feed new, purpose-built waste processing facilities so it has much better prospects, writes Anya Phelan.

Only 12 per cent of the 800,000 tonnes of plastic waste generated in NSW every year is recycled and the EPA is looking for ways to improve those numbers.

Shopping dockets? You are probably better off not handling them. Microwaving food in plastic? That is also not advised — and it is because of the 'disrupting' chemicals, which experts say are affecting vital systems in the human body.

Simon Mallender is determined not to let a single piece of recyclable soft plastic he has used make it into landfill.

Sold and marketed as environmentally friendly, compostable food packaging has been exploding in popularity in Australia. But is it any better than the plastic it's replaced?

A South Australian recycling business says it has a world-first solution to transform the waste from powder coating production into plastic used in construction.

An independent audit of supermarket efforts to cut plastic waste has found ALDI is leading the charge, albeit slowly. 

A beach clean-up crew, and the writer of the note, discourages the use of plastic containers after a message in a bottle is found after a four-month, 400-kilometre journey.

The Kingdom of Tonga looks like paradise, but its lush coconut palms nurse a hidden problem. Now, the country is preparing to deal with this car-sized problem, before it's too late.

Australia's plastic packaging system is being overhauled, which is good news for conscious consumers like Nadene, but some remain sceptical about how much recycling can realistically be achieved. 

Looking like citrus peel, sections of fibreglass are being manufactured and flat-packed on the outskirts of a rural Tasmanian town, destined for Antarctica or even Hollywood.

We heard from more than 1,000 of you who shared the little, and big, things you do to reduce your waste footprint. There were plenty of new and novel ideas for reusing and recycling, so we're tapping into the brains trust. 

A range of single-use plastics will be banned from September 1 as the Queensland government weighs up if it will go ahead with even more bans next year.

Victoria's environment watchdog has dropped allegations against a soft plastics recycling company, but says more serious charges could be coming.

Do you know your PP from your HDPE, and your PVC from your soft plastics? Plastic recycling is a minefield, so here's how to tell what you're dealing with and which bin you should put it in.

New research reveals the extent of Australia's single-use plastic waste, as global leaders "negotiate" over a plastics treaty.

From how clean your recycling needs to be to how many donated clothes are actually resold — can you sort your waste facts from fiction.

Australia, we're still in a war with waste, and while not all of the solutions rest with households, there’s still plenty we can do at home to reduce our waste footprint.